{"id":266067,"date":"2026-08-15T21:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T21:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266067\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T21:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T21:04:11","slug":"masonic-temple-of-erie-partners-with-second-harvest-to-sink-hunger-at-celebrateerie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266067\/","title":{"rendered":"Masonic Temple of Erie partners with Second Harvest to \u2018sink hunger\u2019 at CelebrateErie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Masonic Temple of Erie is making a splash for a good cause at CelebrateErie this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The local free masons partnered with the Erie Downtown Development Corporation and the Second Harvest Food Bank for a charity dunk tank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:WATCH: Bailey Mutschler LIVE on the first day of CelebrateErie 2026;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/watch-bailey-mutschler-live-on-the-first-day-of-celebrateerie-2026\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0WATCH: Bailey Mutschler LIVE on the first day of CelebrateErie 2026\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It&#8217;s located outside the Masonic Temple on West 8th Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Local leaders are helping &#8220;sink hunger,&#8221; raising money for Second Harvest, with 100% of the proceeds benefiting the food bank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We really couldn&#8217;t do what we do without community support, you know, local groups like the masons that come together, you know to raise money, to collect food for their community, it really is a community effort,&#8221; said Gregory Hall, CEO of Second Harvest Food Bank of NWPA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The dunk tank will wrap up along with CelebrateErie on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Masonic Temple of Erie is making a splash for a good cause at CelebrateErie this weekend. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,33844,138,137,112293,14236,16165,5716],"class_list":["post-266067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-downtown-development-corporation","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-gregory-hall","tag-masonic-temple","tag-second-harvest","tag-second-harvest-food-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}